Scrub-a-dub-dub

People get a say in this because Valero went to the extraordinary measure of working with local environmental groups to develop a plan to reduce sulphur emissions from the refinery. It’s actually called the Valero Improvement Project.

The company has already added a smaller scrubber, but now it wants to add a larger one that will add another 150 feet to the structure.

Is this a zoning issue or an environmental issue?

One would think that if a company wants to spend an extra $600 million to clean up the emissions of its plant, that people would jump on it, give them a big thumbs-up and say “thank you very much.” But it is California.